I'm probably asking the same question as the lefties, but for a different reason: is it left-hand-friendly?
I'm ambidexterous and want to use two of them. Also a transformer company just bought me a bunch of free beer and I couldn't care less about the fucking article.
True, but I'd say you're better off than us both in the short term and long term. Australians may get their fair share of apathy and stupidity but:
a) Nowhere near as many think that John Howard is God's mouthpiece as Americans think with the shrub.
b) Your news sources actually report on world events.
c) You don't have the military might to back up the kind of arrogance that we in the US "enjoy."
d) You're government isn't bent on fiscal self-destruction in quite the way ours is.
That said, you're still fucked. The thing is that you, along with the British, are probably gonna backlash against this shit a whole hell of a lot sooner than we will.
We don't have it because nobody's built it yet or stepped up to handle its maintenance, bandwidth, and power needs. To build such a thing you'd need a tracker and webserver that can survive Slashdot, somebody to snapshot the linked sites before the go public, a network of seeds, and some way to automatically push the new torrents to those seeds.
It'd be nice to have, but I wouldn't call it an easy thing to do.
It is true that some people will try to blame Bush for everything. A bigger problem though is the fact that about half of the American public thinks he's some sort of a god and won't blame him for anything at all.
As I see it, blind nationalism is just a little bit more dangerous than pissed off oversimplification . . . . .
The problem is: the proletariat are too drugged with nationalism, religion and ignorance to do much rebelling at the moment. (Wait, aren't those first two the same thing, and based on the third? Never mind.)
Of course, if they do ever snap out of it they're gonna be all kinds of pissed . . . . . . . .
Look on the bright side: at least it wasn't Matrices 2 or 3. Episode 2 has a few redeeming features. Like that scene when what's his face . . . . baby vader gets crushed by that giant tick cow thing. Funniest thing ever.
I only regret that I wasn't drunk for that shit. Also that he did not, in fact, do anything like dying.
I'll see Episode 3, but only in like the third week when the people who know it's gonna be a piece of shit go see it. That way I won't get smacked in the head with a lightsabre flashlight for making sarcastic remarks and laughing at "tragedy."
I'd better patent "writing documents without the assistance of electronic devices" and "interpersonal communication without the use of vibrations in a gaseous medium." Proving prior art on these would be more trouble than it'd be worth . . . .
Safety issues aside, how do you come up with that kind of current over the residential/light-commercial power service availiable at the places you'd want a charging station? Charging a half dozen cars at once in about a minute would probably pull as much as your average city block.
With all this personal data getting stolen (and the tinfoil crowd will hate this) the only way to avoid a complete infoclypse may be to actually appear somewhere in person and have your identity biometrically certified when you apply for credit.
These leaks aren't gonna go away, so we'd better start finding ways to make them irrelevant. Sure, it'd be inconvenient and raise privacy concerns, but I'd rather have my prints on file than have my bank accounts cleaned out and credit ruined with little, if any recourse, solely due to someone else's blunder.
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I'm probably asking the same question as the lefties, but for a different reason: is it left-hand-friendly?
I'm ambidexterous and want to use two of them. Also a transformer company just bought me a bunch of free beer and I couldn't care less about the fucking article.
True, but I'd say you're better off than us both in the short term and long term. Australians may get their fair share of apathy and stupidity but:
a) Nowhere near as many think that John Howard is God's mouthpiece as Americans think with the shrub.
b) Your news sources actually report on world events.
c) You don't have the military might to back up the kind of arrogance that we in the US "enjoy."
d) You're government isn't bent on fiscal self-destruction in quite the way ours is.
That said, you're still fucked. The thing is that you, along with the British, are probably gonna backlash against this shit a whole hell of a lot sooner than we will.
We don't have it because nobody's built it yet or stepped up to handle its maintenance, bandwidth, and power needs. To build such a thing you'd need a tracker and webserver that can survive Slashdot, somebody to snapshot the linked sites before the go public, a network of seeds, and some way to automatically push the new torrents to those seeds.
It'd be nice to have, but I wouldn't call it an easy thing to do.
Because, in America, the gun lobby has as much bribe money to throw around as the entertainment industry.
It is true that some people will try to blame Bush for everything. A bigger problem though is the fact that about half of the American public thinks he's some sort of a god and won't blame him for anything at all.
As I see it, blind nationalism is just a little bit more dangerous than pissed off oversimplification . . . . .
The problem is: the proletariat are too drugged with nationalism, religion and ignorance to do much rebelling at the moment. (Wait, aren't those first two the same thing, and based on the third? Never mind.)
Of course, if they do ever snap out of it they're gonna be all kinds of pissed . . . . . . . .
Look on the bright side: at least it wasn't Matrices 2 or 3. Episode 2 has a few redeeming features. Like that scene when what's his face . . . . baby vader gets crushed by that giant tick cow thing. Funniest thing ever.
I only regret that I wasn't drunk for that shit. Also that he did not, in fact, do anything like dying.
I'll see Episode 3, but only in like the third week when the people who know it's gonna be a piece of shit go see it. That way I won't get smacked in the head with a lightsabre flashlight for making sarcastic remarks and laughing at "tragedy."
I don't think that particular bit of stupidity is what the rest of the world is thinking of when they laugh at us. ;)
This particular story won't trigger a wave of computational mayhem somewhere . . . . . .
I'd better patent "writing documents without the assistance of electronic devices" and "interpersonal communication without the use of vibrations in a gaseous medium." Proving prior art on these would be more trouble than it'd be worth . . . .
This does read like something the US congress would be interested in doing.
A dual Athlon server and rackspace with a 100 MBit pipe.
Who you callin' small?
We're Slashdot - the world's friendliest dDOS attack! Few servers have stood alone against our might and kept running . . . . .
Safety issues aside, how do you come up with that kind of current over the residential/light-commercial power service availiable at the places you'd want a charging station? Charging a half dozen cars at once in about a minute would probably pull as much as your average city block.
With all this personal data getting stolen (and the tinfoil crowd will hate this) the only way to avoid a complete infoclypse may be to actually appear somewhere in person and have your identity biometrically certified when you apply for credit.
These leaks aren't gonna go away, so we'd better start finding ways to make them irrelevant. Sure, it'd be inconvenient and raise privacy concerns, but I'd rather have my prints on file than have my bank accounts cleaned out and credit ruined with little, if any recourse, solely due to someone else's blunder.
Especially since osX is basically FreeBSD, which is second only to OpenBSD in terms of bullet-proofness.
Who modded this troll? Does Microsoft pay to mod down anti-fud too?
People will say whatever you want if you give them lots of money? Impudence!